último
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#374
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
último is anSpanishadj. It means: Que, en una serie de cosas o eventos, no tiene otro que lo siga. Pronounced [ˈul̪t̪imo]. It ranks #374 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with últimos and ultima.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | último |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈul̪t̪imo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for último is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈul̪t̪imo]. Corpus data places it at rank #374 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for último, with forms such as "lútimo", "úlitmo", and "úlltimo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "últimos", "ultima", "ultimas", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is último, spelled Ú-L-T-I-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que, en una serie de cosas o eventos, no tiene otro que lo siga.
- 2En especial, el más reciente en una serie de cosas o eventos.
- 3En especial, el más alejado o recóndito en una serie de cosas o eventos.
- 4Que resuelve o decide una cuestión, sin posibilidad de revisión ulterior.
- 5Extremadamente intenso o marcado, hasta el punto de ser inimaginable un grado ulterior.
- 6Superlativo irregular de ulterior: sumamente ulterior.
- 7Superior en su clase, y a veces también se toma por inferior, peor.
- 8Se aplica al objeto final a que deben encaminarse nuestros designios y acciones.
- 9Acaecido poco ha.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: lútimo,úlitmo,úlltimo,últimmo,últiom,últmio,últtimo,útlimo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for último
Misspelling Variants of "último"
Frequency rank: #374 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter Ú in our Spanish index: